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"The wholesome pursuit of excellence feels quite different from perfectionism."
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"Always be excellent and you'll rise above the rest."

"Remember, each of us needs to be the best in our field."

"Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough!Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard!Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles!Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not?"

"Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress."

"Become so good they can't ingore you, and you are on the path to success. Become so good they can't stand you, and you are on the path to greatness."

"Excellence is not an event but a habit."

"What does easy or hard have to do with anything? Excellence is your standard."

"As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial."

"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."
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"Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering."


"When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring."


"The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we've perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner critic."


"Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience."


"When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life."


"We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love."


"Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives."


"As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it."


"We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity."


"When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness."
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